rfork/minherit glue in libc

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+.\"	@(#)minherit.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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+.Dd Feb 17, 1996
+.Dt MINHERIT 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm minherit
+.Nd control the inheritance of pages
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
+.Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn minherit "caddr_t addr" "size_t len" "int inherit"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn minherit
+system call
+changes the specified pages to have the inheritance characteristic
+.Fa inherit .
+Not all implementations will guarantee that the inheritance characteristic
+can be set on a page basis;
+the granularity of changes may be as large as an entire region.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr fork 2 ,
+.Xr madvise 2 , 
+.Xr mincore 2 , 
+.Xr mprotect 2 , 
+.Xr msync 2 ,
+.Xr munmap 2 ,
+.Xr rfork 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn minherit
+function first appeared in OpenBSD.